Class presentation for my 2º ESO students (following SM book class)

1. UNIT 2

11. VASSALAGE CEREMONY
 HOMAGE:
 The vassal agrees to provide AUXILIUM et
CONSILIUM.
 INVESTITURE:
 The lord granted his vassal a benefice.

18. LORDSHIP

19. HOW DID
PEASANTS LIVE?
 There were different classes:
 Serfs: subjected to the Lord. Not free. Work but not paid.
Hereditary.
 Freemen: paid taxes, rent land but keep part of the harvest.
Free to make their own decisions.

21. THE PEASANT’S
WORK
 The whole family worked all day.
 They had very basic tools and no fertilisers.
 They had to use the fallow system (2 year rotation).
 The main production was cereal, but also fruits and
vegetables, and some families had animals (the
richer).

22. WHO WERE THE
NOBLES?
 There were rich and poor
nobles.
 Their main activity was
fighting. They started military
training from childhood. They
had to pass through different
stages to become a knight
(page, squire, and knight).
 They trained at tournaments.

23. NOBLEWOMEN
 Their function was to marry
and have children. They also
organised the servants.
 Marriages were arranged by
parents. If they did not marry
they went into convents.
 They had to obey their
husbands and rarely left the
castle.

24. NOBLEWOMEN

27. RELIGIOUS ORDERS
 The rule was the document in which
the order member duties were
contained.
 Some orders were closed (they
cannot go out of the monastery).
 Each order has its own habit.
 Some orders required their
members to beg.
 Others imposed absolute poverty.

34. • Established to protect
pilgrims and the Holy
• Knights who took the
monastic vows (poverty,
chastity and obedience) but
also the chivalric code.
• Most important orders:
Knights Templars, Knights
Hospitaller.